It seems that the implementations for volume and brightness keys are handled separately from the remainder of the keyboard in most laptops. I have recently been installing Linux in various older laptops, some with gnome, some with xfce, and have found the laptop "special keys" scripts in /etc/acpi. Is this a debian/ubuntu-ism?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:47 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
s wrote:<br>
> Summary: I updated<br>
> <<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Enabling_XO_features_on_other_distributions" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Enabling_XO_features_on_other_distributions</a>><br>
> <<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_shortcuts" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_shortcuts</a>><br>
> and several other pages, but mysteries remain.<br>
><br>
> <a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a> usefully responded:<br>
><br>
> >> I have zero clue where to find the keymapping<br>
> >> file or configuration utility.<br>
> ><br>
> > i just booted ubuntu to see how they do it -- turns out it's easy.<br>
> > they use a program called "xbindkeys" to bind all of the "special" XO<br>
> > keys. the configuration for that is in /home/olpc/.xbindkeysrc -- you'll<br>
> > see an entry in there that invokes /usr/bin/rotate_screen.py.<br>
><br>
> I added this to<br>
> <<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Enabling_XO_features_on_other_distributions" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Enabling_XO_features_on_other_distributions</a>><br>
> Folks, this is the page where distros note their tweaks for the benefit<br>
> of humanity.<br>
><br>
> I think Sugar doesn't use that technique. ...<br>
<br>
but i've been wondering if perhaps it should.<br>
<br>
given that sugar is now multi-platform, does it make sense for<br>
sugar itself to be managing the special XO keyboard keys? seems like<br>
pulling that support out would let it be reused by non-sugar<br>
distros more readily.<br>
<br>
what happens when you press F9 through F12 when running SoaS?<br>
(i think those are the volume and brightness keys on the XO.)<br>
<br>
paul<br>
=---------------------<br>
paul fox, <a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a><br>
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